Yes, it is one of our jobs to maximise use of available capacity.
You say: "Ops will tell you where we want to go and y o u will tell us how to get there"
Most "airlines" would tell us to get lost if we did that. There are a thousand factors in choosing the optimum route for a flight, I don't need to tell you what they are, but we are not the ones best placed to decide that.
Your frustration seems to be in finding ANY route at all. Having looked at the RAD and all the constraints within it I understand your frustration. I go back to the comments made earlier in posts #18, 19, 20 and 21 regarding the IFPUV system.
I will be back at work tomorrow. PM me an example city pair (one where you had difficulty finding a route) and I will check once again if IFPUV can find one.
As I said before, I will not do this for every pilot who is having a bad day, but if it works then perhaps we will have identified a training requirement. If that is the case then we will deal with that. I await your PM.
flowman